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Re: Do lack of labels for input forms affect users depending on "speech input"

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 13, 2016 12:04PM

Re Dragon Naturally speaking, and I may be speaking somewhat out of my
hindquarters here.
I believe users can tell Dragon to fill in or focus on field "x" where
"x" is the text that appears to be the label for the field.

If the text is programmatically designated as the label for that
field, I expect that process would be more likely to work.
Cheers
-Birkir


On 7/13/16, Lovely, Brian (CONT) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> ...and 5. Everybody else.
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> It's very easy when developing to forget that you've read the specs, looked
> at the designs, asked questions at meetings, but users have not. It's a
> separate skill to be able to set aside what you know and then see what the
> available information actually tells you. ...and to remember that not
> everyone participates in the same culture, so not everyone understands the
> same symbols and patterns. Is there really anything about a hamburger menu
> that communicates its purpose? A user who is unfamiliar with the Internet
> may not think to click it, or may be afraid to click on things to see what
> happens.
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> There is no "us and them" in accessibility. (unless I've been spelling it
> incorrectly, which is always a possibility)
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> Brian Lovely
> Digital Accessibility Team
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
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